The National Spectrum Consortium has landed a potential five-year, $2.5B contract from the Department of Defense meant to fast-track the development of the latest battlefield technologies. The Spectrum Forward other transaction agreement calls for the South Carolina-based defense contractor to finance the prototyping of new dual-use technologies that use the electromagnetic spectrum, including 5G networks, […]
IBM has won a spot on a blanket purchase agreement to provide software development services and digital modernization to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Production and Conservation mission area. The company may now compete for task orders with a combined worth of $620M over the next five years. The FPAC mission area focuses on […]
Palantir Technologies received a $113.8M contract from the U.S. Army when the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems exercised its option to select the Colorado-based software company to continue working on the Vantage program. The deal, originally valued at $458M, was awarded in December 2019 and consists of one base year and three option […]
L3Harris Technologies has received a $496M contract to advance the Navy’s Next Generation Jammer Low Band capability. The Airborne Electronic Attack Program Office awarded the Engineering and Manufacturing Development deal to the Florida-based defense contractor to support the last stage of the design efforts and the production of eight operational prototype pods and four test […]
The Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $4.62B contract to produce Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks, the latest version of the American main battle tank. Work under the firm-price-inventive contract is expected to be completed by June 17, 2028. Funding and work locations will be determined with each order, Defense Brief reported. The M1A2 […]
Amazon Web Services has resumed its petition before a court to cancel the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract the Department of Defense awarded to Microsoft in October 2019. The Amazon subsidiary’s protest filing unsealed on Dec. 15 in the Court of Federal Claims requests that the deal should be nullified due to “systematic bias, bad […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Jacobs a $101M task order to provide information technology support services for critical networks. The five-year contract was awarded under the IT Enterprise Solutions – 3 Services contract vehicle. The contract will support the Army Intelligence and Security Command's Ground Intelligence Support Activity and Enterprise Transport, Jacobs said Wednesday. “This […]
Perspecta has secured a potential five-year, $112M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide systems engineering and integration work for the Space Development Agency. The IDIQ agreement calls for the Virginia-based defense contractor to offer SE&I support for the newly established agency’s satellite constellation, called Tranche 0, a system meant to show the initial capabilities of the National […]
American Systems has received a maximum $496M contract to provide engineering and technical support to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Washington Headquarters Services awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research, development, test and evaluation technical and engineering services in support of the Department of Defense's mission to create warfighting technologies […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded BAE Systems a five-year, $184M contract for full-rate production of the company’s amphibious combat vehicles. The company will initially produce 36 ACVs under the first lot of the contract, a number which is expected to double in early 2021 to 72 vehicles and reach up to 80 vehicles over […]
